Markets were set to put on a “courtesy rally” at the open today as Jay Powell is planning to speak.  It’s like when a great Actor steps on the stage and a “hush falls over the audience…” However, nothing has really changed in the data view.  Sure, whatever he says will be viewed as a … Read More

Answer me this: Does this: Infringe (or trade-dress) this? More on Fearful Friday AM when the Bulls are done puking. George@Ure.net

Yes, I sadly must confess to capturing a little “paper” in the wild gyrations of Wednesday.  (I may be a Capitalist. Or wild-eyed gambler.) But, as the action later today will reveal, the Fed and ECB combined have not gotten “mean enough” to frighten off the Hyperinflation Bogeyman. Based on the early futures pricing before … Read More

Let me see: The stock market has dropped 10.6 percent in the last 12 calendar days and you wonder why this topic and why now?  You are welcome to remain skeptical of our long wave economic views, but unfortunately, the replay of history is continuing as a bad rhyme with little reason. Seen BTC yet … Read More

[Reader Survey Questions (toss answers up as comments(: We may cancel our MailChimp service that sends out notices when new updates are posted.  Anyone going to miss it? I miss $300/year… What is the ideal length/depth for our reports?  Eyeing that 1,000 word area as an “overhead limit” with longer works only going on Peoplenomics. How … Read More

Right out of the box, I’d have to say that there has been tremendous fluctuation in the fate of hobby shops around the world. Covid, all that. Mark Your Calendar Home handy-bastard festival note coming up:  National Retail Hobby Shops Association has a big convention set for from Sept 11-14 in Lost Wages.  See here … Read More

Economics is much like meteorology, we reckon. Today’s report is as much for me (personally) as it is for subscribers as we line up the “match points” between the Great Depression and what’s evolving. Rather interesting exercise to try next time you can’t sleep and it’s 2 AM.  Really ought to try it.  Many have … Read More

Our Daily News-to-Use Consumer Tips first. Amazon has a 47% off deal today on broad (chisel tip) black Sharpies.  Four pack under $5 bucks. Why? We get the odd box from Amazon and elsewhere around here.  So we have taken (when not burning trash) (burn ban is about due, thanks to fire risk out here in … Read More

Feel like you need a dose of Breaking News? The latest new unemployment claims chart will have to hold you. That and a reminder the early futures were pointing to a solidly higher open. RSS as Modern Tea Leaves Wondering what the Fed decision will be – and more importantly how it will be received by … Read More

This is really a report on faddish Accounting, because it drives so much else. Including retirement. Or, given there is a shortage of workers in the country, de-retirement. Jacob Soll’s book The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations provided some of the impetus for the ideas herein. Soll’s  next book, Free … Read More

A fellow seeker of the “right path” took me to task overnight for the Monday column opening.  Where I wrote “There’s not a hell of a lot to yammer about this morning….” In which he pointed out that Evil is everywhere these days, a Drooler is coming for our guns (and seems fixated on 9 … Read More

There’s not a hell of a lot to yammer about this morning.  So let’s! We could talk about real estate changing hands in eastern Ukraine I suppose: Russia-Ukraine war: Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk being ‘levelled’, says Luhansk governor, as Russian shelling intensifies.  Real estate values seem to be dropping? Or, we could talk about the Israelis … Read More